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RAF Form 414, Vol 28

mardi 27 août 2024 • Durée 16:59

Log book stories still abound but I’m now on the last volume of my small collection of RAF Form 414s. Unbeknown to me back then, my time in the Air Force was fast coming to a close. When I was offered the job on the Tornado it was on the understanding that I would serve an additional year to amortise the cost of training and I was now in coming up to the completion of my term of service, 19 years or aged 38 which ever was longer. If I signed on again it would be to age 55. What's more, I needed to make up my mind as the RAF wanted 18 months of notice of my decision… would I stay or leave. The F3 Tornado He used a mixture of chicken entrails, throwing bones and gazing into his crystal balls to tell me my fortune With their glory days behind them the young guns often treated Specialist Aircrew with scant respect and as their skills grew tired and their experience became tarnished with age they sometimes had little to offer but old war stories The KC135 equipped for probe and drogue refuelling RAF weather colour codes My ATPL study books An F3 equipped for QRA The result of a midair collision Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Ronnie Macdonald, Mike Freer, Trougnouf, US DOD, Mike McBey, Defence Imagery, the RAF, the MOD, the RAF Air Historic branch, the IWM, J Thomas, Midjourney and Adrian Pingstone.

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The Guinea Pig Club

mardi 27 août 2024 • Durée 18:53

In the words of it’s benefactor, “It has been described as the most exclusive Club in the world, but the entrance fee is something most men would not care to pay and the conditions of membership are arduous in the extreme.” Other clubs that sprang up during the World Wars are more a measure of the bravado, luck or good fortune of its members to make use of an aircraft’s emergency survival equipment but the club I will tell you about today is one that honoured the grim stubbornness of its members to overcome the pain and disfigurement of their injuries with stoical good (if rather dark) humour. The Guinea Pig Club. The badge of the Guinea Pig Club McIndoe McIndoe and his patients Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to the RAF, East Grinstead museum, the Library of Congress, the RCAF, the IWM, the RAF Benevolent fund and the Queen Victoria hospital.

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RAF Form 414, Vol 27

mardi 27 août 2024 • Durée 20:09

My logbook tales continue with my tour on Tremblers flying the F3 Tornado which had got off to a difficult start when our compliment of brand new aircraft were shipped off to other squadrons and, in return, we received the dregs of the RAF’s Tornado ADVs. They certainly weren’t in the best of condition and I began to think I was fated when I was forced to divert following a generator failure and X-drive clutch failure on an air test but then I was looking forward to leading a detachment down to Coningsby to fight F-16s over the North Sea in the Air Combat Manoeuvring range for a week. The British Aerospace North Sea ACMI served UK and European Air Forces Tremblers formate on the RAF's new E3D Airborne Early Warning aircraft. An F3 Tornado fires an AIM 9 Sidewinder missile A piper plays at sunset A 100 Squadron Hawk trainer An F3 on approach The K2 Victor Air to Air Refuelling tanker trailing all 3 hoses Italian firemen hose down a Tornado canopy as it was too hot to close properly The F3's single Mauser 27mm cannon The golfer Tom Kite playing for the USA in the Dunhill Cup at St Andrews The Royal and Ancient golf club at St Andrews beside the 1st tee and the 18th green. In front is the historic bridge built for herders over the Swilken Burn Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to the RAF, the R&A golf club, BAe, Mike Freer and Optograph.

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See and Avoid

vendredi 28 juin 2024 • Durée 21:06

It’s the summer of 1971 and Helen Reddy is singing about hiking down to the canyon store to buy a bottle wine and having such a good time. I have no doubt that the nine prominent Salt Lake members of the Fishy Trout and Drinking Society returning from their deep sea fishing trip were feeling equally relaxed as they boarded their flight back home from Los Angeles. They were getting onto a Hughes Airwest DC-9, Flight 706, the forerunner of Capt Jeff’s beloved Mad Dog and Angry Puppy, belonging to a new regional airline purchased and renamed by Howard Hughes. A little before them, a U.S. Marine Corps F-4B Phantom II, Bureau Number 151 458, departed Mountain Home Air Force Base in southwest Idaho, bound for Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada.... and so the story starts! A Hughes Airwest DC-9 A U.S. Marine Corps F-4J Phantom II, An ANA B-727 A JAF Japanese built F-86F Sabre The B-727 and F86 tracks The flight paths of the DC-9 and the Marine F-4 The F4's position as would be seen from the DC-9 cockpit The DC-9's position from the F4 front cockpit The eye's Fovea Centralis, the small area of the eye’s retina that can detect fine detail Various TCAS displays Images under a Creative Commons licence with thanks to Richard Silagi, the U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation, Michael Bernhard, Hunini, the NTSB, the USN and U.S. Defense Imagery.

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The 1 to 10 of Aviation

jeudi 27 juin 2024 • Durée 20:29

The numeric version of three previous Tales covering the A to Z of Aviation. Now we look at what numbers might mean to pilots? Babylonian numeric text The Japanese Zero fighter A 'tongue in cheek' three engined Airbus The twin hulled S55 flying boat The North American F-82 Flying in Vic The Piaggio Avanti EVO The Old Course with RAF Leuchars in the background The 10 ton Grand Slam bomb The Seven Seas appeal of the DC-7C The NASA B-52 "Balls 8" Red 10 Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin, Kogo, Arpingstone, images from the Public Domain, the USAF, the RAF, Scott Cormie, Swissair and Delta, NASA,

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RAF Form 414, Vol 26

lundi 10 juin 2024 • Durée 18:58

As you may recall I was undergoing the training course for the Tornado F3 Air Defence Variant having completed four previous flying tours. Now being a senior officer it made the job of working as a student again a little more bearable. The Old Pilot's logbook tales continue: An RAF Tornado Air Defence Variant 67° wing sweep Ait to Air refuelling from the wing stations of an RAF VC10 We watched in horror as a motley collection of hanger queens and scruffy excuses for aeroplanes were delivered, bent and leaking, onto our aprons Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to the Royal Air Force, the MOD, Adrian Pingstone, Chris Lofting, J Thomas and Pràban na Linne Ltd.

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RAF Form 414, Vol 25

mardi 6 février 2024 • Durée 19:11

Form 414, my RAF Logbook continues with me leaving Australia and the Hornet unhappily in my rear vision mirror as I was heading back to Blighty and a cold winter in Lincolnshire. No 229 Operational Conversion Unit was the training unit that would give me my first taste of the Mighty Fin, the Swing Wing Super Jet, Mother Riley’s Cardboard Aeroplane otherwise known as the Air Defence Variant of the Tornado. Not just a British aircraft, the Tornado was a project involving Germany and Italy as well. A cutaway of the ADV Tornado Just some of the multitude of limitations that Tornado pilots were required to memorise The Tornado cockpit showing the wing sweep lever The Mighty Fins of 43 and 111 Squadrons The RB199 lacked sufficient thrust to allow the F3 to perform adequately at medium and high level but it did have a way of going backwards! Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Surruno, Panavia, BAe, the RAF Museum, Mike Freer, Kevan Dickin, Chris Lofting and the RAF.

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RAF Form 414, Vol 24

lundi 5 février 2024 • Durée 21:08

After I landed my aircraft I clambered out of the Hornet with the cold realisation that I might have flown my last sortie. The spinning sensation had ceased and the sortie had gone beautifully, it was almost as if it had been a bad dream. A continuation of tales from the Old Pilot's logbook, RAF Form 414. Was the sun about to set on my career? The surgery span round and round Promotion Exercise K89 One of our opponents, the F16 Firing off live missiles like the AIM 7M Sparrow Landing in a thunderstorm A week on Song Song island acting as the Range Safety Officer The RSO and his crew of Malay troops My final flight and the boys renamed my aircraft Nick The Pom!

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon

lundi 5 février 2024 • Durée 10:39

The year is 1957 and the space race is underway. The major powers around the world, mainly the Soviet Union and the United States, are all striving to develop the technology that will allow them to reach outer space. The Soviet Union’s Academy of Sciences prime aim was to beat the Americans into Earth orbit and their top secret Sputnik project was about to reward all the efforts put in by a generation of scientists and engineers. Sputnik 1 was soon to be placed atop an R-7 rocket and launched into a low orbit to become the first artificial Earth Satellite. But what if they hadn’t been the first? Sputnik was fired into a low earth orbit on the 4th of October 1957 atop an R-7 rocket Some months before the Sputnik launch the US were conducting nuclear tests The Pascal I underground test caused a huge blue flame to erupt from the desert Very high speed cameras were used to film the tests The Horizons spacecraft People wonder what became of the manhole cover and if anything was written on it? Images under a Creative Commons licence with thanks to the Atomic Heritage Foundation, the Federal Government of the United States, NNSA and NASA.

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Flight 600

jeudi 1 février 2024 • Durée 18:58

Let me take you back to the dim distant past and Captain Jeff’s start with his legacy airline, ACME, I mean Delta, no ACME, Delta, Acta, Delme… oh whatever. His career started, not in the Captain’s seat but somewhere in the bowels of flight deck, sitting sideways with control panels in front of him instead of windows, that stretched to the ceiling! Jeff was an engineer on his favourite three holer, the Boeing 727. The loss rate for this iconic airliner was, unhappily, quite high. As of 2019 the aircraft had suffered 351 major incidents of which 119 resulted in a total loss. The loss of life resulting from these bare numbers has risen to over four thousand souls. One addition to those sad statistics came from Flight 600. This is the story. The Boeing 727 Flight Deck The 727 on its maiden flight The famous S bend With tail mounted engines the wings could be fitted with full span lift devices The B727 was the first first airliner to have an APU The 727 had rear mounted stairs that were used by the nefarious DB Cooper Which resulted in the fitting of a Cooper Vane The mechanics of a microburst Our Captain Jeff Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Felix Goetting, Alex Beltyukov, Boeing, Tank67, Daderot, Juras14, Aero Icarus and NASA.

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